Living and Studying Abroad by Michael Byram
The internationalisation of higher education has led to study abroad being a large scale phenomenon. Students spend short periods on study tours or a year or more taking courses in foreign universities. Studying aboard cannot be dissociated however from learning to live in another country and culture. The need to adapt to a new education system is obvious but the inevitable difficulties of living in another culture for the purpose of study are also an important facet of the whole experience. Chapters in this book report research into this whole phenomenon. Authors have researched students travelling across the world, from East to West and West to East, and also the effects of studying in countries which seem to be more like students’ own. Each chapter explains the case in question, the findings from the research and what the implications might be. The second part of each chapter is then a critical reflection on the research methods used. The book thus provides a guide to the complexity of this kind of research and how that complexity can be handled with appropriate techniques and methods.
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Deep Culture
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Developing Intercultural Competence in Practice
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Education for Intercultural Citizenship
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How Different are We?
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Going Performative in Intercultural Education
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The Intercultural Dynamics of Multicultural Working
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Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence
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Teachers as Mediators in the Foreign Language Classroom
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Language, Culture and Identity in Two Chinese Community Schools
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Developing Intercultural Perspectives on Language Use
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Critical Pedagogy
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Online Intercultural Exchange
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Teaching Intercultural Competence Across the Age Range
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From Principles to Practice in Education for Intercultural Citizenship
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Vernacular Palaver
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Intercultural Dialogue in Practice
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Language in the Academy
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Language and Culture Pedagogy
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From Foreign Language Education to Education for Intercultural Citizenship
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Context and Culture in Language Teaching and Learning
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Developing Critical Languaculture Pedagogies in Higher Education
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Language and Culture
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Audible Difference
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Language and Learning in the International University
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Becoming Interculturally Competent through Education and Training
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The Cultural and Intercultural Dimensions of English as a Lingua Franca
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Intercultural Learning in Modern Language Education
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Young Children as Intercultural Mediators
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Critical Citizens for an Intercultural World
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The Common European Framework of Reference
This volume offers a refreshing read not only to research regarding studying and living abroad but also to research in generalThis volume serves as an invaluable tool for developing a strong research design in studying cultural interaction and its implication for study abroad.
-- Christine Isabelli-Garcia, Illinois Wesleyan University * Modern Language Journal 92:3 *Living and Studying Abroad bears valuable testimony to a field in transition. It will give new researchers a strong sense of what is possible and underlines the limitations inherent in certain types of approach. It is a book to be enjoyed and used as a methodological reference by anyone interested in cultural impacts of study and work abroad.
-- Dr Robert Crawshaw - Senior Lecturer in French Studies - University of Lancaster.Michael Byram is Professor of Education at Durham University where he has taught trainee teachers, and researched language teaching and the experience of living abroad on language students in Higher Education. He is also Adviser to the Council of Europe Language Policy Division.
Anwei Feng lectures and supervises education doctoral students at Durham University. His research interests include intercultural studies, language education and the experience of students from Asia in the UK.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781853599125 |
| ISBN 10 | 1853599123 |
| Title | Living and Studying Abroad |
| Author | Michael Byram |
| Series | Languages For Intercultural Communication And Education |
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| Publisher | Channel View Publications Ltd |
| Year published | 2006-08-18 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
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